How to Remove Free Games Zone Adware - Removal Guide

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Oct 10, 2015
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Free Games Zone crazily pop up ads on your browser? You have no idea why your browsers runs extremely slow? Are you struggling to get rid of it from your computer? To put an end to those annoying ads, you need to remove the adware from your computer totally. If so, you are lucky to come to right place. Then you can get your answer by going through this article .

More Details about the Adware

Free Games Zone adware program, also known as a potentially unwanted program, which can come into the target computer when computer users downloaded free software from unsafe website. Such adware programs are often bundled with other applications and installed on the target computers without letting users know. This adware usually will pretend to be a useful tool to improve the browsing experience for computer users. Nevertheless, its final objective is to gain profit for its creators by displaying attractive ads to the computer users and tricking them into buying its commodity. After its infiltration, the adware will immediately alter infected browser settings. In addition, it is able to be added to your browsers and collect your search queries and items and then accordingly send the ads content to you when you surf the Internet. Similar to other information-collected adware, Free Games Zone will keep an eye on user's personal activities for showing more related ads to make more money. Your screen may be flooded with a lot of pop-ups and fake alerts at intervals. For this reason, you need to remove Free Games Zone once any trace of it is found on your computer.

Symptoms of Free Games Zone

1. It sneaks into your computer and affects your browser without letting you know.

2. It may alert the settings of your web browsers and even change some desktop icons.

3.It displays numerous pop-up ads, coupons, best deals on your screen.

4. It prevents you doing search normally by redirecting you to unknown but malicious websites.

5. It furtively gathers your online data (like search terms and browsing history) and sends them to its creators.

Guide to Remove Free Games Zone Manually?

To fix the ads popping up problem and make your browsers work normally, you need to thoroughly get rid of Free Games Zone adware from your machine. You have two choices: automatically remove it using a powerful malware removal tool or manually it remove by follow the manual removal guide given below.

Step 1: Remove the Free Games Zone related programs.

Windows XP
Go to Start, navigate to Settings and click on Control Panel, navigate to Add or Remove Programs, choose Programs and Features, find the adware related programs, and hit Remove.

Windows 8
Move mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen. Click Settings on Charms bar and go to Control Panel. Select Uninstall a program and remove the adware related programs.
 
Windows 7/Vista
Go to Start, navigate to Control Panel, select Uninstall a program/Programs and Features, find the adware related programs, and click on Uninstall.

Step 2: Remove the adware related add-ons from the browsers.

Internet Explorer
Open IE and go to Tools or gear icon in IE9 and then to Manage Add-ons.
Select add-ons related to Free Games Zone or other which you find is unknown to you and remove it.
Restart IE.

Mozilla Firefox
Open Mozilla Firefox & click on Tools from the top menu.
Now go to Add-ons and select the unknown extensions from the list related to the adware.
Remove them by selecting and clicking on Remove button.
Restart the browser.

Google Chrome
Open Google Chrome, click 3-Horizontal Bar icon at the top left corner.
Now go to Tools and then Extensions.
Search for extension exact or similar to the adware and delete it by selecting and clicking Trash icon next to it.
Restart the browser.

How to Avoid Adware Infection?

To prevent the PC from such sneaky unwanted programs, please pay more attention to the programs and files you download from the web because some adware are preinstalled in the installer of those files. We suggest you choose Advanced or Custom installation for it allows you to uncheck those recommended installations of other additional applications like Free Games Zone. In addition, do not open the attachments or links in the emails sent by others until you make sure they are safe to click on. Most spam email attachments are used by adware and other computer threats to get inside the target computer. Therefore, be more careful when you receive emails containing attachments or links from your contacts or strangers.

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